Forms of story

April 2026

In Forms of Story, Julissa explores painting as a way of understanding how energy moves through space and form. Working with an intuitive yet deliberate process, she treats the canvas as an active field where layers are built, softened, and revealed over time. Influenced by her background in architecture, her work is guided by a sensitivity to spatial relationships, allowing each painting to develop as a lived experience rather than a fixed image. Through the interplay of color, light, and shadow, forms emerge and dissolve, carrying traces of memory and emotion. Light directs attention, color creates structure and feeling, and shadow introduces depth and still-ness—together unfolding quiet, open-ended narratives. Her paintings become vessels that hold these subtle shifts, inviting viewers into a space of reflection where meaning is felt as much as it is seen.

My mother, her mother and me
All my mirrors are tinted blue
Don't they know I'm a river of fire
Earth, to tree, to wind, to sky
If I could blossom, it would be in the color yellow
The light through soil
The other side of the light
Abstract painting with swirling shapes in green, orange, and black hues on a red background.
An abstract geometric painting featuring various interconnected shapes and lines in shades of orange, yellow, gray, black, white, and teal.
Abstract geometric painting with interconnected blocks, using shades of green, blue, red, yellow, and orange.
Abstract geometric painting with green, yellow, orange, and black shapes arranged in a swirling pattern.
An abstract painting featuring geometric shapes, mainly cubes and blocks, in shades of green, yellow, orange, and blue, with swirling colorful brushstrokes in the background.